Listen:     I have been reading Walter Isaacson’s new bio of Elon Musk. It’s a fascinating read, and it has given me lots of ideas about the TV news business. Musk, as anyone knows, even without reading the...

Listen:   In the past 10 years, more than 2,000 newspapers across the US have closed, most of them local. This is a very serious problem, because a democracy requires a well informed and well-educated public, and newspapers, particularly...

Listen:   Several years ago, Lisa bought me an old manual typewriter. It turned out to be a very powerful tool for making video. It’s an Underwood, built in 1912, the same year as the Titanic, but unlike the...

Listen:   Stephanie Stokes, a journalist at the Time-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans, sent me the following clipping:   Under pressure to cut costs, ABC News has “resorted to using iPhone for shooting some stories.” (Italics my own). Resorted...

Listen:   A well-informed citizenry is the foundation of a functioning democracy. As Thomas Jefferson said in 1787, “I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.” For the past 35 years, it has been...

After a year away from New York, we came back for a few days. I like printed newspapers. I understand that this makes me old, but I am old. For the past 20 years that I lived in Midtown...

Tucker Carlson, courtesy Wiki Commons Tucker Carlson, until recently the host of Fox News’ most popular show, was unceremoniously fired this week. We don’t know why he was fired, but there is plenty of explanation in the mediaverse —...

Rupert Murdoch and Richard Sackler In 2022, the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma reached an agreement with attorneys to pay $6 billion to resolve claims that they had fueled the opioid epidemic in America by pushing their drug...

Image courtesy WikiCommons My friend, the documentary filmmaker Mark Benjamin sent me a link to an article in IndieWire entitled “Martin Scorsese: ‘The Image on an iPhone Is the New Cinema Vérité’ At first, I thought the article was...

Image courtesy Wikicommons Like a tornado barreling across the Texas landscape, AI, Artificial Intelligence is coming, and like a Texas tornado, it is going to destroy everything in its path. There are estimates that as many as 100 million...